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Time evolution and spatial accumulation of progressive failure for Xinhua slope in the Dagangshan reservoir, Southwest China

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This paper presents a preliminary study of time evolution and spatial accumulation of progressive failure for ancient landslide deposits in Xinhua slope. According to the geological response after impoundment, the Xinhua slope has shown the spatial accumulation of deformation, such as ground cracks in the rear edge, toe collapse, local shallow slides in intense rainfall, and progressive creep displacement. Approximately 2 years of monitoring was performed for the Xinhua slope with the assistance of the global navigation satellite system (GNSS), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and field investigations. The deformation process of a reservoir landslide is considered to be a comprehensive and complicated combination of geological influence from various adverse factors. Field investigations and monitoring indicate that the major serious influence after completion of dam construction comes from the initial large-scale impoundment, the fluctuation of water level, and the existence of a flood season. The creep/slip deformation of slope deposits is a result of integration with adverse hydraulic conditions, e.g., strong rainfall, intense currents and transient seepage flow inside the slope deposits, and activation by water level fluctuation, which can be verified from the twofold evident deformation in the flood season. For the reservoir with daily regulation ability, the occurrence of evident deformations in July highlights that the regulation plan for water level in the flood season is important for controlling the deformation of slope deposits, where the fluctuation of the water level is no more than 10 m in the operation period.

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Critical comments by the anonymous reviewers greatly improved the initial manuscript.

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We gratefully acknowledge the support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41472272) and the Youth Science and Technology Fund of Sichuan Province (2016JQ0011).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Hydraulics and Mountain River Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, People’s Republic of China

    Ming-liang Chen & Jia-wen Zhou

  2. Dadu River Hydropower Development Company, Ltd., Chengdu, 610016, People’s Republic of China

    Peng-fei Lv & Xing-ze Chen

  3. College of Water Resource and Hydropower, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, People’s Republic of China

    Shi-lin Zhang

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Chen, Ml., Lv, Pf., Zhang, Sl. et al. Time evolution and spatial accumulation of progressive failure for Xinhua slope in the Dagangshan reservoir, Southwest China. Landslides 15, 565–580 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-018-0946-8

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